Love like Pandora's box

Chapter 4.

Yibo's mood was ruined for the whole day, and he felt really angry because of the extra work that he had to do. Zhan enjoyed his suffering so much.

Since he was really fed up, during recess, he just grabbed his stuff and rushed to the library, the only place he loved to be. Since it was the only place where Zhan and his group would not be interested to coming,.

He grabbed his stuff and started on his assignment as well as the work of others as well, and while he was working, he suddenly heard a loud noise and saw a student who had accidentally dropped her books on the ground Yibo got up and went to help her, "are you okay?"

The girl smiled and said, "Yeah, I am thankful for your help."

"No problem." Yibo said and the two sat down together before the girl started to talk, "My name is Candace nice to meet you."

"My name is Yibo."

The two then started some small talk and to Yibo it felt nice to talk to someone.

Candace was actually glad to talk to Yibo since she was a loner as well and didn't have any friends at the university, so she enjoyed talking to Yibo.

"Why are you writing different names on each paper?" Candace asked as she observed Yibo making the same assignment over and over again, Yibo gave an awkward smile as he said, "It's nothing."

"Are you making assignments for others as well? They should do it themselves."

"It's fine, I am just helping them."

"Are you sure you are not being forced or something?"

"Oh no, absolutely not. Do I look like someone easy to bully?" Yibo smiled and said he should be given an Oscar for his talent for lying.

Candace smiled as well, and the two continued to pass the time while doing their work and making small talk till the break time was over.

Yibo didn't want to go back to the class to face his stupid classmates, but there was nothing he could do.

Thankfully, he wasn't bothered much in his class, and finally, when the class was over, he finally ran home.

And once he was home, his sister was, as usual, not around.

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At night, after doing his assignment and other work, Yibo decided to make some food for dinner, and once he was done making food, he eagerly waited for his sister to come back home so that they could have lunch together.

And soon he heard the door open. He quickly ran to the door and saw her sister stumbling inside the house.

Yibo's smile was gone, his face became pale when he saw that she was drunk, and his heart dropped when his sister looked at him with her red and bloodshot eyes.

"Y..uki." He tried to speak, but Yuki was far gone. As she squeezed the bottle of alcohol in her hand and lunged at Yibo, she said, "Just shut the fuck up!" She nearly hit Yibo's head, but before she could, Yibo raised his hands in front to protect his head and face, and the bottle smashed against his hands, making him wince in pain.

He took a step back as he stared at his sister. His sister was drunk, and whenever she was drunk, she would always behave like this.

He would become abusive and extremely violent.

Yibo clenched his fists as he said, "Yuki, please calm down."

"Shut up!" she said as she jumped at Yibo and started to attack him viciously. Yibo couldn't hit her back; she was his precious sister, so he just tried to defend himself by pushing her back and going to his room and hearing his sister scream outside.

He could hear her throwing things on the ground and going absolutely crazy. He knew that at this point, the food that he had cooked must have been ruined as well, and he couldn't help but feel sad about the current situation.

Why did things become like this?

Why does it have to be like this?

Yibo slumped down against the door and kept his head on his knees as he waited for his sister to calm down.

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By the time everything became quiet and Yibo gathered himself, it was morning; he barely got any sleep, and he didn't want to sleep anymore either.

Yibo sighed as he got up and went to get fresh. He took a hot shower before he came downstairs and saw the ransacked house, and without wasting any more time, he started to clean the house.

He picked up the broken pieces of glass carefully and cleaned the floor, he saw the food thrown on the ground and cleaned it too.

He also peeked inside Yuki's room and saw her sprawled on the bed. He sighed as he walked inside the door and cleaned her room as well; she had vomited on the floor, and he cleaned that too before making Yuki properly lie on the bed and covering her with a duvet.

After he was done cleaning, he made some breakfast for both him and his sister.

After he was done cooking, he started to eat his share of the breakfast alone. Once he was done eating, he quietly left the house for college.